How to pray like a SOBER ALCOHOLIC

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so it's good to be back in Atlanta and especially at Chabad in town where just to give you a an understanding of specialty or the specialness the uniqueness of this particular place as I was walking up to the lectern I asked Robert Schusterman I said oh you know what it would really help for my talk would you have a copy of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and he said yeah I got one in my office so this is going to factor into the talk but I don't know if you know there's not too many shows where you could get that and that's a very special thing and of course we know about the incredible work done here at Jeff's place for the recovery community and how it is seamlessly blended with the spiritual programming that's done for the the butter Community here so yes this is a special place and in case notice that I'm telling you as an an out of town guest this is a very special place okay so really to start off I want to tell you something about the a Jew in recovery I I had a conversation a few years ago with a young man who grew up in a somewhat observant Jewish Home uh they they observed the holidays and and Shabbos and he would say the prayers in Hebrew he'd been to a religious school and he drifted away from that and long story short he what they called uh in recovery he hit bottom he hit rock bottom his life was falling apart faster than he could lower his standards and

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1. 0:00so it's good to be back in Atlanta and especially at Chabad in town where just…
2. 5:16will for us and the power to carry that out the minute I flip it and…
3. 11:00in English I think they call it Shiloh like a Civil War battle shouldn't mention it…
4. 16:52if you know anything about the laws the actual laws of the mishkan or the mikdosh…
5. 22:18but to the contrary she was completely sober she was thinking selflessly when he told her…
6. 28:26so I showed him the third step prayer I said listen it all depends on why…
7. 34:22and he paid them back so there's a fascinating explanation of this from the Sam Cipher…
8. 39:50rescue his brother-in-law a light don't be afraid I'm going to protect you your reward is…
9. 45:35said well it never happened he says the talmud tells us that in the times when…
10. 51:35my son you've asked for a new life I got a new life for you right…

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